Good afternoon, committee members, witnesses and invited guests.
This is the fourth meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
The focus of today's agenda is the First Nations University of Canada.
I would like to welcome each of our witnesses today.
Before we begin this important study on the First Nations University of Canada, I want to point out to members that we have five organizations represented here.
For the benefit of witnesses, we have votes planned toward the end of our session. You'll hear bells at approximately 5:15. We will have to suspend our meeting at that point and finish, as far as you're concerned, shortly after 5:15.
Since there are five witnesses today, members, I'm going to use a fair degree of control over the length of time used for questions and responses. We will go with the standard seven-minute opening round, and then have five-minute questions for members. Each of the witnesses has five minutes for their opening presentation. We will go through each of the five in order.
We do have the order--thank you very much for assisting us with that today.
We'll go through the order, and once the fifth presentation is complete we will open the floor to questions from members.
I would like to begin this afternoon by welcoming Chief Guy Lonechild. Guy is the regional chief and is here today representing the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. With him is Dorothy Myo, special advisor to the chief.
Guy, I understand you're doing the presentation. You have the floor for five minutes.